Government backs entrepreneurs across the UK with £600 million of Start Up Loans outside London gov.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gov.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It came as party backbenchers, such as left-wing veteran Diane Abbott, urged a “change of political strategy to avoid more disasters like Hartlepool” - although she stopped short of calling for Starmer to go, unlike others to the left of the party.
“Voters do not loathe him the way they did Jeremy Corbyn. But he is described as weak, a nonentity with no opinions,” writes James Johnson in The Times, while The Telegraph says he has been unable to shake off a reputation as “the bland leading the bland”.
But what do we know about Labour’s policy ideas already?
Keir Starmer s post-Covid plan for Britain – the key points msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Keir Starmer has used a speech to set out his vision for how Labour would seek to rebuild the UK after the coronavirus crisis, giving a handful of specific policy ideas and several more general approaches. Here are the main points.
British recovery bond
An official savings scheme intended to harvest the additional savings accumulated by some households during lockdown, so they can be used for post-Covid spending on infrastructure and jobs. There has been much recent commentary on how governments can best unleash what is estimated to be well over £125bn in spending suppressed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Others have come up with similar ideas. Last year the centrist New Policy Institute thinktank proposed a âcoronavirus bondâ, while this week Tory MPs based in the north of England suggested a savings scheme targeting their region for investment.
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